today. about a mile and a half away from plaza towers and also in the tornado s path. john roberts toured what s left of briar wood elementary and tomorrow he will tell us the story of the teacher who got hurt while saving the students lives. there is breaking news now on fox news channel. we have a verdict in the case of the murder jodi arias. the jury has now decided whether jody will recommend that jodi arias lives or dies. there has been a lot going on in that courtroom today. at one point as you know the jurors said we can t come up with a decision. the judge sent them back. we knew that they were convening people in the courtroom now. relatives of the victim have been there and many of the court watchers as well. everyone is in the courtroom now and there is a verdict. so our live coverage begins now of the jodi arias verdict. as you know. we have had very little opportunity to hear specifics this afternoon. but we now know that the verdict is in. we don t yet know what it
analyst here in studio with us tonight. first of all, i have never in all my born days heard of a impaneling of a new jury to take over a penalty phase. i have never heard of it either. it s very unique to arizona as is the jurors asking the defendant questions as they did. shepard, let s just back up for a second what you just showed. i have never seen a verdict read like that. shepard: normally. normally a note comes out and says we can t reach a verdict. we can t reach a unanimous verdict. shepard: the judge just says you are deadlocked. thank you ladies and gentlemen for your time peace, god be with you. the clerk just read the verdict it took years off of people s lives. you thought there was going to be we find unanimously death, we find unanimously life in prison. instead we find unanimously no unanimous decision. that was solve 00 wall the way that was read. first my understanding it was a question. shepard: our understanding as well. all the stud sudden you get
most likely. and what of the prosecutors here? arthur aidala is with us here in studio. fox news legal analyst, studio b legal he contributor. it s just this is just a disaster. it is a disaster. and it s not fair. when a jury can t reach a unanimous decision de facto it s life without parole. shepard: that s what we do here? what happens here is if this next jury doesn t do it, the judge has a choice between life without parole or natural life. i haven t done the research to tell what the difference is life without parole or natural life. shepard: trace has something on this, trace? why you are talking to arty, very important to point out now we are told there is a little bit of wriggle room here for prosecutors. we always said there was option two in this. option one is impaneling brand new jury and going over part of the penalty phase. option 2 is if prosecutor decided they wanted to waive the death penalty and agree to life in prison.
is. but we re waiting to find out what that verdict is and, of course, live coverage. trace gallagher is with us from los angeles. trace, the thinking was that if they didn t get a verdict today, that they probably would take a long weekend. it sounds like the verdict is in and we will know what, minutes from now or what? do we know? well, shep, i mean not so fast, because the judge said first we understand the jury that you have a verdict. and, in fact, what they are saying now is the judge could very well be deadlocked. now, our feed is kind of breaking up. can you see jodi arias right there. but it seems to me like the jury has not reached a unanimous decision, shep, so the jury remains deadlocked. and we went over the options before the court. and what they re saying is in essence the judge has now set a further date for them, july 18th is the date for what to happen? for the retrial. so this is what is going to happen now. we talked about option one and july 18th has now been
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